Elementary Schools in Durant Community School District

Summary:

The Durant Community School District in Iowa has only one elementary school, Durant Elementary School, which serves students from preschool through 6th grade. The school's performance has fluctuated in recent years, ranking as high as 214th out of 565 Iowa elementary schools in 2022-2023 and as low as 353rd out of 576 in 2024-2025.

Durant Elementary School's academic performance, as measured by the percentage of students proficient or better on ISASP tests, varies across grade levels and subjects. In 2024-2025, the school's proficiency rates in English Language Arts ranged from 57.4% for 3rd grade to 82.4% for 6th grade, compared to the state averages of 67.9% to 72.8%. In Mathematics, the school's proficiency rates ranged from 61.8% for 4th grade to 78.7% for 3rd grade, compared to the state averages of 74.3% to 75.8%. The school's 5th-grade Science proficiency rate of 70% was higher than the state average of 64.2%.

Durant Elementary School has a student population of 350 and a relatively high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch at 28.29% in 2023-2024. The school's chronic absenteeism rate was 21.6% in 2023-2024, and the student-teacher ratio is 14.5 for the 2023-2024 school year. The Durant Community School District spent $12,812 per student in the 2018-2019 school year.

District Detail

408 7th Street
Durant, IA 52747

(563) 785-4432

SchoolDigger Rank:
268^th of 313 Iowa districts

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Grades served: PK, KG-12
Students: 682

Primary Schools: 1
Middle Schools: 0
High Schools: 1
Alternative Schools: 0

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2025)				Ranking (2024)				ISASP English Language Arts (2025)				ISASP Mathematics (2025)				ISASP Science (2025)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	SchoolDigger Rating (2025)	Average Standard Score (2024)	Statewide Rank (2024)	State Percentile (2024)	Rank Change from Previous Year	ISASP English Language Arts 3rd Grade	ISASP English Language Arts 4th Grade	ISASP English Language Arts 5th Grade	ISASP English Language Arts 6th Grade	ISASP Mathematics 3rd Grade	ISASP Mathematics 4th Grade	ISASP Mathematics 5th Grade	ISASP Mathematics 6th Grade	ISASP Science 5th Grade	Per Pupil Expenditures Total	Sub-total from Federal Funds	Sub-total from State/Local Funds
Durant Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-6	408 7th St	Durant	52747	Cedar County	Durant Community School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(563) 785-4433	342	24	14.3	25.1%	318 (93.0%)	0 (0.0%)	15 (4.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	9 (2.6%)	47	353^rd of 576 public elementary schools	38.7%		50.3	326^th of 557 public elementary schools	41.5%	27	57.4	70.6	75.0	82.4	78.7	61.8	67.5	66.0	70.0	$12,812	$604	$12,209

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District	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Wilton Community School District	5.08 mi	2	217^th
Davenport Community School District	7.63 mi	27	297^th
Bennett Community School District	10.03 mi	1
Muscatine Community School District	12.62 mi	9	264^th
North Scott Community School District	13.88 mi	7	64^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Iowa Department of Education.

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